BLACK.
LIVES.
MATTER.
The summer of 2020 was monumental. COVID was in full swing and yet another black American died at the hands of the Police.
If you read and internalize history, you’ll learn that the rise of BLM and the protests of 2020 are not new. You’ll see that these events happen every 20 years or so and are cyclical within American society.
People of color want to live freely like every other American, yet they’re constantly told they’re not working hard enough or composing themselves correctly enough to have the right that every other white American has always had. Propped up by white supremacy, our institutions and corporations constantly move the goal posts to find new ways to try and ‘contain’ people of color and profit from their bodies. After enough downward pressure over decades, all it takes is one moment, one incendiary, to blow it all up.
That is what we saw that summer.
“There are those people saying:⠀
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‘If they didn’t run, then they wouldn’t have gotten killed. If they didn’t resist, they would be fine. People are just hyping it up because everyone has nothing to do and it’s just this one person…’ ⠀
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This is not just one person, this is not an isolated incident… And yes the Police are a huge problem, because they have power and they’re a gang that have a right to kill us.… but it’s also the people.”
- Mo⠀
It is imperative to be anti-racist.
“I just want to make a change. We’re finally getting to a point where people are getting it. Nobody wants to listen to the victims of what’s happening. But now finally people are listening to the victims that aren’t the victims and that’s what we needed. Just like during the civil rights movement, nobody cared it was a bunch of black people. But as soon as white girls and white guys were interlocking arms with a bunch of Black people, America was like ‘Oh. Wow. I guess they are people.’”
-Mo
